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Yeah. I think more than 5% of android apps are not compatible with let's say a device like the Galaxy Y or anything similarly spec'd.

Any reduction in functionality is never a benefit.

But having an updated version sure is a good thing. Cheaper WP with Tango have reduced functionality compared to their more expensive and higher spec'd counterparts. BUT these cheap WPs have more functionality as compared to when they were with Mango.

I'm right here Doug!! :-)
Missing features will serve the Tango market better than an underperforming, underpowered option or a 3 year old outdated piece of crap. Microsoft needs to be honest to their buyers of Tango. The performance should sell itself.

I am not knocking the idea of reducing the O/S footprint to be able to offer a solution to a larger market. Google/Android have hinted at a similar effort to be able to enable Android's continued market expansion.

I completely agree with you about the need for honesty. Then it comes down to an informed purchase decision.

I don't think that anybody would argue that having features taken out of an OS is good for the user. Personally, I would never go for Tango because I like the features of Mango and the hardware as well. However, having this option is a luxury that other people may not have, and these are the people that Microsoft is trying to cater to.

Is it better to give the users a device they can get, but remove some of the cool features in the process, or is it better to give them your full product, even if that may greatly limit the amount of people that could obtain it?

Is it better to be able to obtain a product, even if some of the cooler features have been cut out, or is it better to have the full featured product available, but you can never get it?

i totally agree with your comment. say two years, when everyone is comfortable with desktop windows, and they invade the tab market and phone market..they will be on top i feel, of the mobile ecosystem.

Everyone were using symbian a great os(many still love including me), looked for a change and came to android. Now everyone will start looking for a change & come to windows phones(as this os is catching up the market) definitely windows will come up & will be a threat to others :)

One further question - does the low end edition of WP support any kind of background processing? Like having Skype active, and waiting or an incoming call while the and set is used to review an Excel spreadsheet that was received as an e-mail attachment? When a Skype call is received, can the user receive the call and return to their Excel spreadsheet concurrently?

With that low end of a processor that will be on these cheap handsets and that low of spec sheet, bet on Tango being a one item at a time device. But again, most low end, underpowered Android freeze up like an ice cube if you ask them to multitask. Remember the market. These buyers don't expect the mobile world laid at their feet. They just want devices that work well. Most of these, poor hardware excepted,.will.

These restrictions are important enough to know, but not discouraging enough to scare away any potential buyers of the lower end phones. Prepaid carriers always have weaker, slower performing devices, and developing markets do not care about all the bells and whistles. Microsoft will push Tango as an affordable, smooth option in those price markets. This was extremely important to Nokia. WP 7.5/8 is to compete with the rest of the market.

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